I've never lived in a small village before
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Be prepared for everyone getting into your personal business and the gossip.
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Well, there's a tease if I've ever seen one. Lol
When I was 9 we went to Texas to live in what amounts to a village where my dad was born and grew up. My sister and I were walking down this little paved road. These two old ladies were sitting on a porch and waved us over. We were sort of reluctant coming from a fairly big city in CA.
Then they said to us in Spanish "You're so and so's daughters, right?" We were astonished and that drew us in so we walked over to them. This was '76-77 and they were already old. To think of it now, they're probably born around the early 20th century. They said, well, you both look like your dad, especially you...as they pointed to my sister. We giggled and watched them, probably bug eyed. Sitting on their chairs, using a towel to shoo the mosquitoes away (must be the Texas state bird), one of them rolling cigarettes for the both of them.
They just shared a story about my our dad and his friends and their mischievousness. It was astounding to us at the time. We later told my dad about it, and as we described them and where it had happened. He said something like those ladies were probably Doña "X" and "Y".
Small towns can be very interesting indeed.
When I was 9 we went to Texas to live in what amounts to a village where my dad was born and grew up. My sister and I were walking down this little paved road. These two old ladies were sitting on a porch and waved us over. We were sort of reluctant coming from a fairly big city in CA.
Then they said to us in Spanish "You're so and so's daughters, right?" We were astonished and that drew us in so we walked over to them. This was '76-77 and they were already old. To think of it now, they're probably born around the early 20th century. They said, well, you both look like your dad, especially you...as they pointed to my sister. We giggled and watched them, probably bug eyed. Sitting on their chairs, using a towel to shoo the mosquitoes away (must be the Texas state bird), one of them rolling cigarettes for the both of them.
They just shared a story about my our dad and his friends and their mischievousness. It was astounding to us at the time. We later told my dad about it, and as we described them and where it had happened. He said something like those ladies were probably Doña "X" and "Y".
Small towns can be very interesting indeed.
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Did I misunderstand the question? Do you actually live in one or are you just talking about living in a small village in general?
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I spent my time in the Navy on an Aircraft Carrier which socially is like a small town of 5000 souls and you don't know but a small fraction of them all, a friend of mine spent time on a Frigate a small escort boat with a crew of less than 200, it was like a big family....everybody knew everything about everyone, which obviously had + and -
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I've been watching Midsomer Murders (in season 20 now) - beautiful settings, small villages, and generally interesting stories - always excellent acting, but I find it disturbing that (and it's always a theme) no one seems to be faithful to their spouse. Do you find that true in Europe?
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The Expat community is enthusiastic about large yachts and casual spouse swapping, I read about it online.
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I don't doubt it, but I was wondering regarding the natives.
Here in the US, studies have shown that it tends to be conservatives moreso than the more liberal people who cheat.
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The widespread incidents of conservative male closet cases being exposed, skews those indices. In my own researched opinion, look it up.
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Now, when you say conservatives, you mean perverts?
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Venn diagrams don't lie.
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Oh, them vesica piscis looking things. So the big overlap section represents the conservative homotesticles?
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You know, there is this African tribe (maybe more than one) where the young boys suck off the older men in order to receive the life giving sauce, much as they receive life giving milk from the mother's - all things being fair and balanced. I wonder if that isn't true in trumptard rich communities in America.
"Trump Giving Life To His Base" The Fairness Doctrine.
Late edit for accuracy: Quick search - I think it's an Indonesian tribe I was remembering about, but it's likely practiced elsewhere as well.
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Food for thought.
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I wouldn't give it too much thought though.
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Have you run out of marriages to wreck?
I live in one. Every day I have experiences that I never imagined possible, really.
This is just one story, among many.
There was an old guy, Antonio, who lived here alone. I talked with him occasionally. One afternoon I noticed about 10 people standing in front of his house. I went and asked my across the street neighbor, Nuno, who was standing among those in front of Antonio's house, what happened. He told me Antonio had just died and they were waiting for officials to come take him. I asked how he knew Antonion had died. He had no idea how anyone knew. Just suddenly, magically, everyone knew Antonio had just died. There's no taking days to discover someone has passed alone in their home. And each village has a local office where business is taken care of. Within hours, that office has a picture of the person who passed, with details about their life, and it is posted in several places in the village.
I find it no moreso than in the US. Some do, some don't. Some Expats cheat and some don't as well.
Actually, I read about a South American tribe that does that. Perhaps that happens in more than one community.
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That's actually kind of cool how they handle things like that.
It's actually really cool. The only thing bad is, everyone knows your business. And they like to gossip about it. It's very strange. Expats are like that, too. Everyone knows who everyone else is, and you hear gossip about people you've never even met.
Well, the anonymity is very nice. But I hate seeing the traditional Portuguese village lifestyle being destroyed by tourism.
Yeah, it's like that here. Everyone here has known everyone since birth. My next door neighbor, who is 88, married a boy she went to grammar school with here in the village. Their families probably knew each other for generations.
There's a woman here name Victor. She rides around on an electric motorcycle every day. We always say hello as she scoots by. One day I was in the big city (30,000 people. 12 minutes away.) I saw a woman who looked so much like Victor, but clearly wasn't Victor. This old lady in town called me over to introduce me because she knew I live in the village. This woman who looks like Victor is Victoria, and she is Victor's twin. 80% of women in Portugal are named Maria, and go by their second name. But Victor and Victoria were named Maria Victoria and Victoria Maria, so they are Victor and Victoria so that neither one had to be Maria.
One day a man knocked on our door and asked me if I knew where Maria lived. I asked him which Maria. He said "The mother of Antonio." I burst out laughing because all the men are named Antonio also. I didn't know who he was looking for. He just said, "Never mind." I felt bad, but hey, it was fuckin funny.
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That is funny, which of the million Antonios would he be looking for...
Maria is oh so common in Latin America too, but nothing like Portugal I'm guessing. I knew a Chilean woman who had like 7-8 sisters. They were all named Maria too.
Maria Paz, Maria Jose, Maria Victoria, Maria Lorena...etc. and they also go by their second name.
My grandmother was named Maria de Trinidad. She went by Trini...
My mother-in-law was Maria Victoria.
Totally here. Everyone is Maria. Everyone. It's crazy. it turns out Maria and Antonio were my neighbor and her son, both of whom go by other names. But at the time I didn't even know they were Maria and Antonio. There are maybe four Antonio's just in my little corner of the village. God knows how many Marias.
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Yeah, at least Mexicans add in Jose, Jesus, Guadalupe...
Sometimes it's family names...Juan Miguel, Tomas, etc...there are men in South Texas that have the same names of my grandfather (first and last), dad, uncles...in the same region...confusing.
They all have multiple names here, too. And some of the nicknames are imaginative. I think older people insist on calling people Maria and Antonio. That shit just gets crazy.
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